yep... it is nice having him that close. I wish my sugar was better. even bucket sap was lower.

Not much moving for sap today. it got to upper 30's but long hard freeze last night with a bit of a breeze nothing moving. had the pump on maybe got 20 gallons. I check it at 7:00 there was nothing come in at all. guessing it was froze up back in the woods I shut her down its 33* right now.

Went up to loudon and picked up some supplies and stopped in to see Larry more fora few minutes. everybody is busy up there but doing well. Was in a hurry to back down here. It was a quick $850 trip. (usually is)

Finished up the remaining Tsunami Sap today. finally moved through the sap that was in the Evap which was almost Very Dark probably is. and moved up to lighter dark almost in to amber by the end of the boil. hopefully we will get some amber on the next boil. Should be tomorrow night once things cut loose again. I figiured out my problem the other night filtering I was pretty much making candy in the filter press. I am like 4-5 brix over on that batch oops. need to add a little water back to that batch. Was drawing off right onthe money tonight and it went through EASY... made about 8-9 gallons it went right through and I even had enough filter press left to run my remaining syrup pan through it to clean out some niter.

So nice having a nice new to me drawoff container and having everthing plumbed right into the canners. and it is VERY nice to have 2 canners too. Thanks josh. I am hooked. just let me know how much you want for it.

We were getting pellets today saw your truck but you must have been up in the woods.

Good luck the next few days everybody.